# excellent
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English excellent, from Old French excellent, from Latin excellēns (“elevated, exalted”), present participle of excellō (“elevate, exult”), equivalent to excel +‎ -ent.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɛksələnt/, /ˈɛksɪlənt/
* (in rapid speech) IPA: /ˈɛkslənt/
* (US) IPA: /ˈɛksələnt/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

excellent (comparative more excellent, superlative most excellent)
* Having excelled, having surpassed.
* Of higher or the highest quality; splendid.
** 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
* Exceptionally good of its kind.
    Bill and Ted had an excellent adventure last week in preparation of their history exam.
** 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.
* Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.
** 1754–1762, David Hume, “(please specify the page)”, in, volume (please specify |volume=1 to 6), London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […]:Elizabeth, therefore, who was an excellent hypocrite
** 1616–1618, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, “The Queene of Corinth”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii:Their sorrows are most excellent.

#### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:excellent

#### Antonyms

* poor
* terrible

#### Derived terms

* eggcellent
* excellence
* excellently
* excellentness
* my very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas
* sexcellent
* superexcellent
* unexcellent

#### Related terms

* excel

#### Translations
### Adverb

excellent (comparative more excellent, superlative most excellent)
* (obsolete) Excellently.
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, New York Review Books 2001, p.287:
    Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis, hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].

### Further reading

* “excellent”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* excellent in Britannica Dictionary
* excellent in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
* excellent in Ozdic collocation dictionary
* excellent in WordReference English Collocations

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch excellent, from Middle French excellent, from Old French excellent, from Latin excellēns.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌɛk.səˈlɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ex‧cel‧lent
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Adjective

excellent (comparative excellenter, superlative excellentst)
* (formal) excellent, splendid
    Synonyms: uitmuntend, uitstekend

#### Related terms

* excellentie

#### Descendants

* Negerhollands: excellent
* → Papiamentu: excelent (dated)

## French
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin excellentem.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃/ ~ /ɛk.se.lɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)

#### Adjective

excellent (feminine excellente, masculine plural excellents, feminine plural excellentes)
* excellent; splendid

##### Usage notes

This adjective is generally placed before the noun it modifies.

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛk.sɛl/

#### Verb

excellent
* third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of exceller

### Further reading

* “excellent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Verb

excellent
* third-person plural future active indicative of excellō

## Middle French
### Noun

excellent m (feminine singular excellente, masculine plural excellens, feminine plural excellentes)
* excellent
** 1549, Commentaires tres excellens de l'hystoire des plantes‎, Paris:

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Latin excellēns.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Béarn):(file)

### Adjective

excellent m (feminine singular excellenta, masculine plural excellents, feminine plural excellentas)
* excellent

#### Related terms

* excelléncia
* excellir